Merrick Elderton
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| Full name | Merrick Beaufoy Elderton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 February 1884 Brentford, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 December 1939 (aged 55) Sherborne, Dorset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1931 | Minor Counties | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1921–1938 | Dorset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1907 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 21 November 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
the Merrick Beaufoy Elderton
MBE (21 February 1884 – 11 December 1939) was an English cricketer and educator. Elderton was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Brentford, Middlesex
.
Elderton was educated at
Gentlemen of England against Cambridge University in 1907.[3] He graduated from Cambridge in 1907, and in that same year he took up a teaching position with Sherborne School in Dorset, remaining there for the rest of his life apart from a period of war service. He taught Alan Turing there.[4]
Elderton served during
Minor counties cricket for Dorset until 1938, making between 1921 and then, 134 Minor Counties Championship appearances.[10]
He continued to teach at Sherborne School until his death on 11 December 1939.[1] He died after being in collision with a cyclist while walking near his home in Sherborne.[11] The cyclist was a boy named Alfred William Hatcher. Elderton had stepped on the road from the pavement and emerged from a behind a car when the cycle struck him on the right side. He fell face first on the road and died from a fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain.[12]
References
- ^ a b "Player profile: Merrick Elderton". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Merrick Elderton". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by Merrick Elderton". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ "Turing's school reports".
- ^ "No. 30517". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 February 1918. p. 1881.
- ^ "No. 30366". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 November 1917. p. 11419.
- ^ "No. 31144". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 January 1919. p. 1321.
- ^ "West v New Zealanders, 1927". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ "Minor Counties v New Zealanders, 1931". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Merrick Elderton". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ "Obituary: Mr M. B. Elderton". The Times. No. 48486. London. 12 December 1939. p. 11.
- ^ "Death of Mr M.B.Elderton". Western Gazette. 15 December 1939. Retrieved 19 March 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
External links
- Merrick Elderton at ESPNcricinfo
- Merrick Elderton at CricketArchive